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AMSTERDAM is a beguiling capital, a compact mix
of the provincial and the cosmopolitan. It has a
welcoming attitude towards visitors and a uniquely
youthful orientation. For many, however, its world-class
museums and galleries - notably the Rijksmuseum, with
its collection of seventeenth-century Dutch paintings,
and the Van Gogh Museum - are reason enough to visit.
Amsterdam was founded on a dam on the river Amstel in
the thirteenth century. During the Reformation it rose
in stature, taking trade away from Antwerp and becoming
a haven for its religious refugees. Having shaken off
the yoke of the Spanish, the city went from strength to
strength in the seventeenth century, becoming the centre
of a vast trading empire with colonies in Southeast
Asia. Amsterdam accommodated its expansion with the
cobweb of canals that gives the city its distinctive and
elegant shape today. Come the eighteenth century,
Amsterdam went into gentle decline, re-emerging as a
fashionable focus for the alternative movements of the
1960s. Despite a backlash in the 1980s, the city still
takes a uniquely progressive approach to social issues
and culture, with a buzz of open-air summer events,
intimate clubs and bars, and relaxed attitude to soft
drugs
The City
Amsterdam is a small city, and, although the concentric
canal system can be initially confusing, finding your
bearings is straightforward. The medieval core boasts
the best of the city's bustling streetlife and is home
to shops, many bars and restaurants,...
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